Dear colleague,
This is an invitation to submit a contribution for the:
Computational Optimization and Applications (COA 2021) Workshop
of the 21th International Conference on Computational Science and
Applications (ICCSA 2021, <http://www.iccsa.org/> http://www.iccsa.org/)
will be held on July 5 - 8, 2021 in collaboration with the University of
Cagliari, Italy, in blended form.
Like last year, ICCSA 2021 offers the possibility of online-only
participation (with reduces registration fees). But we are also planning to
offer the possibility of in-presence participation, should the pandemic
situation allow it, by setting up a blended experience for mixed
online/in-presence sessions.
TOPICS
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The scope of the Workshop is to bring together scientists working in
Computational Optimization and its applications in science and engineering.
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
* Computational Optimization: new issues in computational algorithms for
continuous and discrete optimization; deterministic and stochastic
algorithms, nature-inspired algorithms and other metaheuristic algorithms
for solving optimization problems.
* Applications: case studies in all areas of sciences, engineering and
industry, including economics, medicine, biology, earth sciences and social
sciences.
IMPORTANT DATES
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March 28, 2021: Deadline for abstract and paper submission to the COA
Workshop
April 18, 2021: Notification of Acceptance.
May 10, 2021: Submission deadline for the final version of the Proceeding
Papers
May 10, 2021: Early-bird Registration ends.
July 5-8, 2021: ICCSA 2020 Conference
PROCEEDINGS
============
The proceedings of the COA 2021 Workshop will appear in the Springer-Verlag,
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. The paper must be
camera-ready, between 10 and 16 pages long and formatted according to the
LNCS rules
SUBMISSION DETAILS
==================
All accepted papers will be included in the Springer Lecture Notes in
Computer Science (LNCS, <http://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs>
http://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs ) series and indexed by
Scopus, EI Engineering Index, Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings
Citation Index (included in ISI Web of Science), and several other indexing
services. The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and
citable DOI numbers. Submitted papers will be subject to stringent peer
review by at least three experts and carefully evaluated based on
originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition.
The authors can submit abstracts and papers to your session accessing the
electronic submission site: <http://ess.iccsa.org/> http://ess.iccsa.org/
You can find the instructions to prepare and submit papers on the web site (
<http://www.iccsa.org/instructions-for-authors>
http://www.iccsa.org/instructions-for-authors )
If you are not registered, you must to register before the submission. From
the personal page the author is able to submit first an abstract (phase 1),
then a full paper (phase 2), selecting the session from the list of sessions
in the submission forms.
The author will be able to update the paper until the submission deadline.
ORGANIZERS
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* Ana Maria A. C. Rocha ( <mailto:arocha@dps.uminho.pt>
arocha(a)dps.uminho.pt), <http://www.dps.uminho.pt/> Dep. of Production and
Systems (University of Minho), <http://algoritmi.uminho.pt/> ALGORITMI
Center (University of Minho), Portugal
* Humberto Rocha ( <mailto:hrocha@fe.uc.pt> hrocha(a)fe.uc.pt),
<https://www.uc.pt/en/feuc> Faculty of Economics (University of Coimbra),
<https://www.uc.pt/en/uid/ceber> CeBER (University of Coimbra), Portugal
If you have some doubts or problems so not hesitate to contact the
organizers.
Best regards,
Ana Maria A.C. Rocha and Humberto Rocha
(COA 2021 organizers)
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Prof. Osvaldo Gervasi, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
University of Perugia
Via Vanvitelli, 1
06123 Perugia (Italy)
email: osvaldo.gervasi(a)unipg.it
personal email: osvaldo.gervasi(a)gmail.com
Tel: +39 075 5855048
Fax: +39 075 5855024
URL: http://ogervasi.unipg.it
IEEE and ACM Senior Member
Department Deputy Chair
Eleventh International Workshop on Advances in High-Performance
Computational Earth Sciences: Applications and Frameworks (IHPCES 2021)
https://www.cspp.cc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/IHPCES2021/
Dear colleagues,
IHPCES 2021, the 11th workshop in the series of "Advances in
High-Performance Computational Earth Sciences" workshops,
will take place in conjunction with the ICCS 2021 Conference
in Krakow, Poland, from June 16-18, 2021.
The objective of this series of workshops is to provide a forum for presentation and discussion
of state-of-the-art research in high performance computational earth sciences.
IHPCES workshops foster communication between Earth scientists, applied mathematicians,
and computer scientists. The workshop therefore presents a unique opportunity to exchange
advanced knowledge, computational methods, and science discoveries in computational geosciences.
Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Large-scale simulations on supercomputing systems in earth sciences
Advanced modeling and simulations on natural disaster prevention and mitigation
Advanced numerical methods for high performance computational earth sciences
Parallel and distributed algorithms and programming strategies for supercomputers
Software engineering for parallel systems with multi-core processors and accelerators
Algorithms for Big Data analytics and applications for large-scale data processing
Methodologies and tools designed for extreme-scale computing
We welcome full (up to 14 pages) and short (up to 7 pages) papers
in Springer LNCS format (we can not accept "Abstract Only" submissions).
All accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings of
ICCS 2021, published by Springer in its LNCS series.
Important dates:
February 12, 2021 Paper Submission Due
March 15, 2021 Author Notification
April 5, 2021 Camera-Ready Papers Due
IHPCES 2021 co-chairs:
Takashi Shimokawabe - The University of Tokyo, Japan
Kohei Fujita - The University of Tokyo, Japan
Dominik Bartuschat - University of Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany
Program committee (tentative):
Hideo Aochi - Bureau de Recherches Geologiques et Minieres, France
Joern Behrens - University of Hamburg, Germany
Xing Cai - Simula Research Laboratory/University of Oslo, Norway
Takeshi Fukaya - Hokkaido University, Japan
Takashi Furumura - University of Tokyo, Japan
Lutz Gross - University of Queensland, Australia
Alexander Heinecke - Intel Parallel Computing Lab, USA
Sebastian Kuckuk - University of Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany
Johannes Langguth - Simula Research Laboratory, Norway
Osni Marques - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
Hiromichi Nagao - The University of Tokyo, Japan
Kengo Nakajima - The University of Tokyo, Japan
Kenji Ono - Kyushu University, Japan
Olaf Schenk - Universita della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland
Osamu Tatebe - University of Tsukuba, Japan
Peng Wang - NVIDIA, USA
Mei Wen - National University of Defense Technology, China
Huilin Xing - University of Queensland, Australia
We are looking forward to your contributions to IHPCES 2021.
With best regards,
Dominik Bartuschat
on behalf of the IHPCES 2021 co-chairs
--
Dr.-Ing. Dominik Bartuschat, M.Sc. (hons.)
Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg
Lehrstuhl fuer Informatik 10 - Systemsimulation
Cauerstrasse 11
D-91058 Erlangen
Tel: +49 9131 85 28925
Fax: +49 9131 85 28928
E-Mail: dominik.bartuschat(a)fau.de
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CALL FOR PAPERS
16th Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing
(VHPC 21) held in conjunction with the International Supercomputing
Conference - High Performance, June 24 - July 2, 2021, Zoom Online Event.
(Springer LNCS Proceedings)
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Date: July 2, 2021
Workshop URL: vhpc[dot]org
Online Zoom Event registration [free, limited slots]
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Ux8jRopGhCYku3Z_FFMfud3RLwMg4-DABE_EeqlLmAQ
Abstract Registration Deadline: February 15, 2021
Paper Submission Deadline: April 5, 2021
Springer LNCS
Call for Papers
Containers and virtualization technologies constitute key enabling
factors for flexible resource management in modern data centers, and
particularly in cloud environments. Cloud providers need to manage
complex infrastructures in a seamless fashion to support the highly
dynamic and heterogeneous workloads and hosted applications customers
deploy. Similarly, HPC environments have been increasingly adopting
techniques that enable flexible management of vast computing and
networking resources, close to marginal provisioning cost, which is
unprecedented in the history of scientific and commercial computing.
Most recently, Function as a Service (Faas) and Serverless computing,
utilizing lightweight VMs-containers widen the spectrum of
applications that can be deployed in a cloud environment, especially
in an HPC context. Here, HPC-provided services become accessible
to distributed workloads outside of large cluster environments.
Various virtualization-containerization technologies contribute to the
overall picture in different ways: machine virtualization, with its
capability to enable consolidation of multiple underutilized servers
with heterogeneous software and operating systems (OSes), and its
capability to live-migrate a fully operating virtual machine (VM)
with a very short downtime, enables novel and dynamic ways to manage
physical servers; OS-level virtualization (i.e., containerization),
with its capability to isolate multiple user-space environments and
to allow for their coexistence within the same OS kernel, promises to
provide many of the advantages of machine virtualization with high
levels of responsiveness and performance; lastly, unikernels provide
for many virtualization benefits with a minimized OS/library surface.
I/O Virtualization in turn allows physical network interfaces to take
traffic from multiple VMs or containers; network virtualization, with
its capability to create logical network overlays that are independent
of the underlying physical topology is furthermore enabling
virtualization of HPC infrastructures.
Publication
Accepted papers will be published in a Springer LNCS proceedings
volume.
Topics of Interest
The VHPC program committee solicits original, high-quality submissions
related to virtualization across the entire software stack with a
special focus on the intersection of HPC, containers-virtualization
and the cloud.
Major Topics:
- HPC workload orchestration (Kubernetes)
- Kubernetes HPC batch
- HPC Rootless Container Environments Landscape
- HW Heterogeneity
- Container ecosystem
- Networking
- Lightweight Virtualization
- Unikernels / LibOS
- State-of-the-art processor virtualization (RISC-V, EPI)
- Containerizing HPC Stacks/Apps/Codes:
Climate model containers
each major topic encompassing design/architecture, management,
performance management, modeling and configuration/tooling.
Specifically, we invite papers that deal with the following topics:
- HPC orchestration (Kubernetes, Virtualizing Kubernetes for HPC,
Deployment paradigms
- Multitenancy
- Serverless
- Declarative data center integration
- Network provisioning
- Storage
- OCI i.a. images
- Isolation/security
- HW Accelerators, including GPUs, FPGAs, AI, and others
- State-of-practice/art, including transition to cloud
- Frameworks, system software
- Programming models, runtime systems, and APIs to facilitate cloud
adoption
- Edge use-cases
- Application adaptation, success stories
- Kubernetes Batch (Scheduling / job management, Execution paradigm -
workflow, Data management, Deployment, Multi-cluster/scalability,
performance, Workflow / execution paradigm)
- End-to-end rootless Docker alternative container environment & use-cases
- Creating, Running containers as non-root (rootless)
- Running rootless containers with MPI
- Container live migration
- Running containers in restricted environments without setuid
- Networking (SDN / NVF, SR-IOV, Network Slicing & provisioning,
polling, federated learning OS abstractions).
- Lightweight Virtualization (Micro VMMs: Rust-VMM / AWS Firecracker /
solo5, Xen, KVM, Nitro, RVirt, Rust based hypervisors / Cloud
Hypervisor / Novel hypervisors
- Unikernels / LibOS
- HPC Storage in Virtualization
- HPC container storage
- Cloud-native storage
- Hypervisors in storage virtualization
- Processor Virtualization
- RISC-V (hypervisor extensions / ports / IOMMU specification)
- EPI
- Composable HPC microservices
- Merging of high throughput computing and HPC
- Novel schedulers for job to data placement
- Containerizing Scientific Codes (Building / Deploying / Securing /
Storage / Monitoring)
- High performance containers
- Portability of containers/images, impact on performance
- Use case for containerizing HPC codes:
Climate model containers for portability, reproducibility,
traceability, immutability, provenance, data & software preservation
The Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing
(VHPC) aims to bring together researchers and industrial practitioners
facing the challenges posed by virtualization in order to foster
discussion, collaboration, mutual exchange of knowledge and
experience, enabling research to ultimately provide novel solutions
for virtualized computing systems of tomorrow.
The workshop will be one day in length, composed of 20 min paper
presentations, each followed by 10 min discussion sections, plus
lightning talks that are limited to 5 minutes. Presentations may be
accompanied by interactive demonstrations.
Important Dates
February 15, 2021 - Abstract registration deadline
April 5, 2021 - Paper submission deadline (Springer LNCS)
May 3, 2021 - Acceptance notification
July 2, 2021 - Workshop Day
July 10th, 2021 - Camera-ready version due
Chair
Michael Alexander (chair), BOKU, Vienna, Austria
Anastassios Nanos (co-chair), Nubis, Greece
Program committee
Stergios Anastasiadis, University of Ioannina, Greece
Paolo Bonzini, Red Hat, Italy
Jakob Blomer, CERN, Europe
Eduardo César, Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain
Taylor Childers, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
Stephen Crago, USC ISI, USA
Tommaso Cucinotta, St. Anna School of Advanced Studies, Italy
François Diakhaté CEA DAM Ile de France, France
Balazs Gerofi, RIKEN, Japan
Kyle Hale, Northwestern University, USA
Brian Kocoloski, Washington University, USA
Simon Kuenzer, NEC Laboratories Europe, Germany
Giuseppe Lettieri, University of Pisa, Italy
Klaus Ma, Huawei Technologies, China
Alberto Madonna, Swiss National Supercomputing Center, Switzerland
Nikos Parlavantzas, IRISA, France
Anup Patel, Western Digital, USA
Kevin Pedretti, Sandia National Laboratories, USA
Amer Qouneh, Western New England University, USA
Carlos Reaño, Queen’s University Belfast, UK
Riccardo Rocha, CERN, Europe
Borja Sotomayor, University of Chicago, USA
Jonathan Sparks, Cray, USA
Kurt Tutschku, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
John Walters, USC ISI, USA
Yasuhiro Watashiba, Osaka University, Japan
Chao-Tung Yang, Tunghai University, Taiwan
Paper Submission-Publication
Papers submitted to the workshop will be reviewed by at least two
members of the program committee and external reviewers. Submissions
should include abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the
corresponding author, and must not exceed 10 pages, including tables
and figures at a main font size no smaller than 11 point. Submission
of a paper should be regarded as a commitment that, should the paper
be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the
conference to present the work. Accepted papers will be published in a
Springer LNCS volume.
The format must be according to the Springer LNCS Style. Initial
submissions are in PDF; authors of accepted papers will be requested
to provide source files.
Abstract, Paper Submission Link:
edas[dot]info/newPaper.php?c=28004
Lightning Talks
Lightning Talks are non-paper track, synoptical in nature and are
strictly limited to 5 minutes. They can be used to gain early
feedback on ongoing research, for demonstrations, to present research
results, early research ideas, perspectives and positions of interest
to the community. Submit abstract via the main submission link.
General Information
The workshop is one day in length and will be held in conjunction with
the International Supercomputing Conference - High Performance (ISC)
2021, June 24 - July 2.
We apologize for multiple copies of this CfP.
Journal: Future Internet
Special Issue Title: Parallel and Distributed Computing
Special Issue Editor: Prof. Massimo Cafaro
Deadline: 30 April 2021
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/futureinternet/special_issues/PDGCP2P_C
Summary
Dear Colleagues,
recent years have witnessed the growing interest for parallel and distributed computing not just for large scale processing of big data, but also in the context of several research trends such as Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Data Mining, Wireless Sensor Networks, Internet of Things, Green Computing in Data Centers etc. The aim of the Special Issue is to address current research and trends in the field by focusing on theory, technologies and applications, highlighting both challenges and opportunities. The scope of the Special Issue is very broad, taking into account the interdisciplinarity of parallel and distributed computing. Among the topics of interest, there are (but the Special Issue is not strictly limited to these):
- Parallel algorithms;
- Distributed algorithms, including P2P algorithms;
- Fault-tolerant algorithms;
- Cloud and grid computing;
- Architectures for parallel and distributed computing;
- Green computing and data centers;
- Middleware and libraries for parallel and distributed computing;
- Scheduling and resource allocation.
Prof. Massimo Cafaro
Prof. Italo Epicoco
Dr. Marco Pulimeno
Guest Editors
Keywords: parallel computing, distributed computing, grid computing, cloud computing, P2P.
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Massimo Cafaro, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Parallel Algorithms and Data Mining
Dept. of Engineering for Innovation
University of Salento, Lecce, Italy
Via per Monteroni
73100 Lecce, Italy
Voice/Fax +39 0832 297371
Web http://sara.unisalento.it/~cafaro
Web
https://www.unisalento.it/people/massimo.cafaro
E-mail massimo.cafaro(a)unisalento.it
E-mail cafaro(a)ieee.org
E-mail cafaro(a)acm.org
CMCC Foundation
Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change
Via Augusto Imperatore, 16 - 73100 Lecce
massimo.cafaro(a)cmcc.it
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Dear Colleagues,
we are pleased to inform you that a Special Issue of the Mathematics
Journal (a peer-reviewed open access journal ISSN 2227-7390
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/mathematics
<https://www.mdpi.com/journal/mathematics>, WoS impact factor 1.747, Q1
and top 10%) dedicated to polynomial sequences and their applications is
now open to receive submission for possible publications.
Special Issue: *Polynomial Sequences and Their Applications.*
Website:https://www.mdpi.com/journal/mathematics/special_issues/polynomial_…
<https://www.mdpi.com/journal/mathematics/special_issues/polynomial_sequence…>
Guest Editors: Prof. Dr. Francesco Aldo Costabile, Prof. Dr. Maria I.
Gualtieri, Prof. Dr. Anna Napoli
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Calabria,
Via Pietro Bucci, cubo 30/A, 87036 Rende (CS), Italy.
Deadline for manuscript submissions: *30 June 2021.*
Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:
·Modern Umbral Calculus (Binomial, Appell, Sheffer Polynomial Sequences).
·Orthogonal polynomials, Matrix orthogonal polynomials, Multiple
orthogonal polynomials and Orthogonal polynomials of several variables.
·Operational methods and Monomiality Principle.
·Generating functions, special classes.
·Matrix and determinant approach to special polynomial sequences.
·Applications of special polynomial sequences in approximation theory,
in boundary value problems and in quadrature formulas.
·Number theory and special classes of polynomials.
·Asymptotic methods in orthogonal polynomials.
·Fractional Calculus.
·Extrapolation methods.
*Description*
Polynomials are an incredibly useful mathematical tools as they are
simply defined and can be calculated quickly on computer systems. They
can be differentiated and integrated easily, and can be pieced together
to form spline curves. Furthermore, from Weierstrass’s Approximation
Theorem, every continuous function defined on a closed interval can be
uniformly approximated by polynomials. Therefore sequences of
polynomials perform an important role in several branches of sciences:
mathematics, phisics, engineering etc. For examples, polynomial
sequences arise in physic and approximation theory as the solutions of
certain ordinary differential equations. Orthogonal polynomials play an
important role in the applications. In statistics Hermite polynomials
are very important, which are, also, orthogonal polynomials. In algebra
and combinatorics umbral polynomials are used such as: rising
factorials, falling factorials, Abel, Bell, Bernoulli, Euler, Boile,
ciclotomic, Dickson, Fibonacci, Lucas, Touchard etc. polynomials. Some
of these belong to special classes, such as Sheffer, Appell and the
binomial type.For this reason the research in this field appears in
different Journals/Magazines.
A special issue that makes the state of art of current research would be
very useful for the mathematical community.
We warmly invite you to contribute to our Special Issue.
Don't hesitate to forward this message to anyone who could be interested.
Thank you very much for your kind consideration and apologies for
multiple copies.
We look forward to hearing from you.
Francesco A. Costabile,
Maria I. Gualtieri,
Anna Napoli
[Apologies for multiple copies]
Application link: https://apply.interfolio.com/81030
*Open Rank Tenure-Track Faculty Position in the Department of Information
Systems, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)*
The Department of Information Systems (IS) at UMBC invites applications for
an open rank tenure-track faculty position starting August 2021. Successful
candidates will complement and extend our current strengths. More
information about research interests of our faculty can be found at
https://informationsystems.umbc.edu/home/research/areas-of-research/.
Candidates with research interests cross-cutting multiple areas are
particularly encouraged to apply. Candidates must have earned a PhD in
related fields no later than August 2021.
The Department has 33 full-time faculty and over 1,600 students, including
over 80 PhD students. The department offers undergraduate degrees in
Information Systems and Business Technology Administration. Graduate degree
programs, MS and PhD, are offered in both Information Systems and
Human-Centered Computing, including an innovative online MS program in IS.
In addition, the Department houses the Master’s in Health Information
Technology, which is a professional degree program. Our faculty are
actively engaged in collaborative interdisciplinary research within and
across departments and institutions, and four of our current faculty have
received NSF CAREER awards. Further details can be found at
https://informationsystems.umbc.edu/.
UMBC is a public research university that is leading the world in inclusive
excellence in research and teaching. We are redefining how to teach and we
are one of the most innovative universities in the nation (US News). To
continue to support this goal, the Faculty Development Center provides
excellent support such as classroom observation, collection and analysis of
student feedback as well as regular workshops and pedagogical
demonstrations. Our research is bold, cross disciplinary, and leverages our
location near to the hospitals in Baltimore, NIH, NASA, NSF, and the USGS.
UMBC’s strategic location in the Baltimore-Washington corridor puts us
close to many high-tech companies as well. The 2018 Chronicle of Higher
Education also named UMBC as one of the best colleges to work for, for the
ninth year in a row. The department, college and UMBC are deeply committed
to the success of all of our faculty. We have various mentoring programs
such as “launch committees” to offer regular and structured mentorship for
faculty to develop a thriving and successful research program and the
Eminent Scholar mentoring program to build relationships with leaders in
the field beyond UMBC. The campus is close to both energetic urban centers
and family-friendly suburbs. Nearby cities such as Columbia and Ellicott
City have been routinely ranked as top 10 best places to live in the US.
Candidates are expected to establish a collaborative, externally funded,
and nationally recognized research program and contribute to teaching a
variety of graduate and undergraduate courses offered by the department
effectively. We expect candidates to be innovative in terms of pedagogical
methods, course content, and curriculum development, and be committed to
advising, mentoring and supporting student success. All candidates should
have experience in – or have the potential for – building an equitable and
diverse scholarly environment in teaching, mentoring, research, life
experiences, or service. Candidates for the Associate and Full Professor
rank should also demonstrate a track record of inclusive excellence.
Candidates for the Associate Professor rank should also have a strong
record of research, teaching, service, and a sustained externally-funded
research program. Candidates for the Full Professor rank should also
demonstrate leadership in their field, hold an excellent academic record,
and show a history of securing external funds for multiple sizable research
projects. We are particularly interested in receiving applications from
individuals who are members of groups that historically have been
under-represented in the professoriate.
We especially welcome applications from candidates who are willing to
contribute to the diversity mission of the university and the department.
UMBC is a national model for diversity and inclusive excellence in STEM.
Examples of these are our Meyerhoff Scholar programs (
http://meyerhoff.umbc.edu/), the Center for Women in Technology (
http://cwit.umbc.edu), and PROMISE: Maryland’s AGEP and LSAMP Bridge to the
Doctorate programs. Inclusive excellence is a hallmark of UMBC and a
foundational value of our community. UMBC is the nation’s #1 producer of
African American undergraduates who go on to complete an M.D./Ph.D. and #2
nationally for African American undergraduates who complete a STEM Ph.D.
The IS department is proud to support a diverse student and faculty body in
terms of gender, race, and ethnicity. The IS faculty has a culture of
inclusiveness of excellence, demonstrated by both academic research such as
community engaged scholarship, research on improving accessibility of
technology to disabled, as well as efforts to address diversity issues in
STEM such as CWIT scholar program and starting a regional chapter of Women
in Data Science and Machine Learning. More than half of the leadership
positions in the department including the chair are currently held by women
faculty.
Applications for the positions must be submitted as PDF files via
Interfolio at https://apply.interfolio.com/81030. Review of
applications will start in December 2020 but will continue until positions
are filled. All interviews will be conducted online but applicants are
welcome to talk to IS faculty to learn about Baltimore and the surrounding
area.
A complete submission will consist of:
1) Cover letter
2) CV
3) One-page statement of teaching philosophy.
4) Two-page statement of research interests.
5) One-page statement of demonstrated commitment to diversity and inclusive
excellence.
6) Names and contact information of at least three references. Letters will
be required later for short-listed candidates.
Candidates’ experience will be evaluated commensurate to the rank to which
they are applying. For inquiries, please email to
is_faculty_search_2020(a)umbc.edu. An informational webinar will be also held
in late November or early December. If you are interested in the webinar,
please register at https://forms.gle/CmugCMfPdnPRoT386. Review of
applications will begin in December, 2020 and will continue until the
position is filled.
*UMBC is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer and welcomes
applications from minorities, women, veterans, and individuals with
disabilities.*
The Ada-Europe 2021 Conference organizers decided to provide more time
for authors to prepare their contributions. The deadline for most
submissions is extended to Thursday 14 January 2020. 2 weeks remain!
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UPDATED Call for Contributions - EXTENDED DEADLINE
25th Ada-Europe International Conference on
Reliable Software Technologies (AEiC 2021)
7-11 June 2021, Santander, Spain
www.ada-europe.org/conference2021
Organized by University of Cantabria and Ada-Europe
in cooperation with ACM SIGAda, SIGPLAN, SIGBED
and the Ada Resource Association (ARA)
*** Extended DEADLINE 14 JANUARY 2020 AoE ***
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*** General Information
The 25th Ada-Europe International Conference on Reliable Software
Technologies (AEiC 2021 aka Ada-Europe 2021) will take place in
Santander, Spain, in the week of 7-11 June. The conference schedule
includes a technical program, vendor exhibition, and parallel tutorials
and workshops.
Despite the COVID-19 situation which led to the cancellation of
the previous edition of the conference, there is a firm commitment
to celebrate the 2021 edition in any case. The initial goal is to
have a mixed model with both in-person and remote participation.
If the situation so requires it, the conference would be held as a
full virtual event.
The 2021 edition of the conference continues the major revamp of the
in-person registration fees introduced in 2019, redesigned to extend
participation from industry and academia, and to reward contributors,
especially but not solely, students and post-doc researchers.
*** Schedule
14 January 2021: Submission of journal-track papers, industrial
presentation outlines, and tutorial and workshop
proposals
19 March 2021: Notification of acceptance for journal-track papers,
industrial presentations, tutorials and workshops
31 March 2021: Submission of Work-in-Progress (WiP) papers and
Invited Presentation proposals
30 April 2021: Notification of acceptance for WiP papers and Invited
Presentations
*** Topics
The conference is a leading international forum for providers,
practitioners and researchers in reliable software technologies.
The conference presentations will illustrate current work in the
theory and practice of the design, development and maintenance of
long-lived, high-quality software systems for a challenging variety of
application domains. The program will allow ample time for keynotes,
Q&A sessions and discussions, and social events. Participants include
practitioners and researchers from industry, academia and government
organizations active in the promotion and development of reliable
software technologies. Should the situation allow it, the presenters
will be given the choice of in-person or virtual participation.
The topics of interest for the conference include but are not
limited to:
- Design and Implementation of Real-Time and Embedded Systems:
Real-Time Scheduling, Design Methods and Techniques, Architecture
Modelling, HW/SW Co-Design, Reliability and Performance;
- Design and Implementation of Mixed-Criticality Systems: Scheduling
Methods, Mixed-Criticality Architectures, Design Methods, Analysis
Methods;
- Theory and Practice of High-Integrity Systems: Medium to Large-Scale
Distribution, Fault Tolerance, Security, Reliability, Trust and
Safety, Languages Vulnerabilities;
- Software Architectures for Reliable Systems: Design Patterns,
Frameworks, Architecture-Centered Development, Component-based
Design and Development;
- Methods and Techniques for Quality Software Development and
Maintenance: Requirements Engineering, Model-driven Architecture and
Engineering, Formal Methods, Re-engineering and Reverse Engineering,
Reuse, Software Management Issues, Compilers, Libraries, Support
Tools;
- Ada Language and Technologies: Compilation Issues, Runtimes,
Ravenscar, Profiles, Distributed Systems, SPARK;
- Mainstream and Emerging Applications with Reliability
Requirements: Manufacturing, Robotics, Avionics, Space, Health
Care, Transportation, Cloud Environments, Smart Energy Systems,
Serious Games, etc;
- Achieving and Assuring Safety in Machine Learning Systems;
- Experience Reports in Reliable System Development: Case Studies
and Comparative Assessments, Management Approaches, Qualitative
and Quantitative Metrics;
- Experiences with Ada: Reviews of the Ada 2012 language features,
implementation and use issues, positioning in the market and in the
software engineering curriculum, lessons learned on Ada Education
and Training Activities with bearing on any of the conference topics.
*** Call for Journal-Track Papers
The journal-track papers submitted to the conference are full-length
papers that must describe mature research work on the conference
topics. They must be original and shall undergo anonymous peer review.
Accepted journal-track papers will get a presentation slot within
a technical session of the conference and they will be published in
an open-access special issue of the Journal of Systems Architecture
(Q2 in the JCR and SJR ranks) with no additional costs to authors.
The corresponding authors shall submit their work by 14 January 2021
via the Special Issue web page:
https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-systems-architecture/
call-for-papers/special-issue-on-reliable-software-technologies-aeic2021
Submitted papers must follow the guidelines provided in the
"Guide-for-Authors" of the JSA (https://www.elsevier.com/journals/
journal-of-systems-architecture/1383-7621/guide-for-authors).
In particular, JSA does not impose any restriction on the format or
extension of the submissions.
*** Call for WiP-Track Papers
The Work-in-Progress papers (WiP-track) are short (4-page) papers
describing evolving and early-stage ideas or new research directions.
They must be original and shall undergo anonymous peer review.
The corresponding authors shall submit their work by 31 March 2021, via
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aeic2021, strictly in PDF and
following the Ada User Journal style (http://www.ada-europe.org/auj/).
Authors of accepted WiP-track papers will get a presentation slot
within a regular technical session of the conference and will also
be requested to present a poster. The papers will be published in
the Ada User Journal as part of the proceedings of the Conference.
The conference is listed in the principal citation databases,
including DBLP, Scopus, Web of Science, and Google Scholar. The Ada
User Journal is indexed by Scopus and by EBSCOhost in the Academic
Search Ultimate database.
*** Call for Industrial Presentations
The conference seeks industrial presentations that deliver
insightful information value but may not sustain the strictness
of the review process required for regular papers. The authors
of industrial presentations shall submit their proposals, in the
form of a short (one or two pages) abstract, by 14 January 2021, via
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aeic2021, strictly in PDF and
following the Ada User Journal style (http://www.ada-europe.org/auj/).
The Industrial Committee will review the submissions anonymously and
make recommendations for acceptance. The abstract of the accepted
contributions will be included in the conference booklet, and authors
will get a presentation slot within a regular technical session of
the conference.
These authors will also be invited to expand their contributions
into articles for publication in the Ada User Journal, as part of
the proceedings of the Industrial Program of the Conference.
*** Awards
Ada-Europe will offer an honorary award for the best presentation.
All journal-track and industrial presentations are eligible.
*** Call for Invited Presentations
The invited presentations are intended to allow researchers
to present paramount research results that are relevant to the
conference attendees. There will be no publication associated to
these presentations, which may include previously published works,
relevant new tools, methods or techniques.
The invited presentations will be allocated a presentation slot.
Presentations can be delivered remotely to facilitate the
participation.
The Program Committee will select invited presentation proposals that
may be submitted by e-mail to one of the Program Chairs as a one-page
summary of the proposed presentation, along with the information
and/or links required to show the relevance of the covered topic.
*** Call for Educational Tutorials
The conference is seeking tutorials in the form of educational seminars
including hands-on or practical demonstrations. Proposed tutorials
can be from any part of the reliable software domain, they may be
purely academic or from an industrial base making use of tools used in
current software development environments. We are also interested in
contemporary software topics, such as IoT and artificial intelligence
and their application to reliability and safety.
Tutorial proposals shall include a title, an abstract, a description
of the topic, an outline of the presentation, the proposed duration
(half day or full day), and the intended level of the tutorial
(introductory, intermediate, or advanced). All proposals should be
submitted by e-mail to the Educational Tutorial Chair.
The authors of accepted full-day tutorials will receive a complimentary
conference registration. For half-day tutorials, this benefit is
halved. The Ada User Journal will offer space for the publication
of summaries of the accepted tutorials.
*** Call for Workshops
Workshops on themes that fall within the conference scope may be
proposed. Proposals may be submitted for half- or full-day events, to
be scheduled at either end of the conference days. Workshop proposals
should be submitted by e-mail to the Workshop Chair. The workshop
organizer shall also commit to producing the proceedings of the event,
for publication in the Ada User Journal.
*** Call for Exhibitors
The commercial exhibition will span the core days of the main
conference. As an alternative to the traditional physical exhibition,
virtual exhibition activities will be possible. Vendors and providers
of software products and services should contact the Exhibition Chair
for information and for allowing suitable planning of the exhibition
space and time.
*** Special Registration Fees
Authors of accepted contributions and all students will enjoy reduced
registration fees. In addition, there will be low registration fees
for virtual participants.
*** Venue
Santander is a nice tourist city in the north of Spain, with a
well-connected airport and at a 100 km drive from Bilbao airport.
The conference venue and hotel is the Bahia Hotel in the city center
and beside Santander bay.
*** Organizing Committee
* Conference Chair
Michael González Harbour, Universidad de Cantabria, Spain
mgh at unican.es
* Program Chairs
Mario Aldea Rivas, Universidad de Cantabria, Spain
aldeam at unican.es
J. Javier Gutiérrez, Universidad de Cantabria, Spain
gutierjj at unican.es
* Work-in-Progress Chair
Kristoffer Nyborg Gregertsen, SINTEF Digital, Norway
kristoffer.gregertsen at sintef.no
* Tutorial & Workshop Chair
Jorge Garrido Balaguer, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
jorge.garrido at upm.es
* Industrial Chair
Patricia Balbastre Betoret, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
patricia at ai2.upv.es
* Exhibition & Sponsorship Chair
Ahlan Marriott, White Elephant GmbH, Switzerland
software at white-elephant.ch
* Publicity Chair
Dirk Craeynest, Ada-Belgium & KU Leuven, Belgium
dirk.craeynest at cs.kuleuven.be
*** Previous Editions
Ada-Europe organizes annual international conferences since the early
80's. This is the 25th event in the Reliable Software Technologies
series, previous ones being held at Montreux, Switzerland ('96),
London, UK ('97), Uppsala, Sweden ('98), Santander, Spain ('99),
Potsdam, Germany ('00), Leuven, Belgium ('01), Vienna, Austria
('02), Toulouse, France ('03), Palma de Mallorca, Spain ('04), York,
UK ('05), Porto, Portugal ('06), Geneva, Switzerland ('07), Venice,
Italy ('08), Brest, France ('09), Valencia, Spain ('10), Edinburgh, UK
('11), Stockholm, Sweden ('12), Berlin, Germany ('13), Paris, France
('14), Madrid, Spain ('15), Pisa, Italy ('16), Vienna, Austria ('17),
Lisbon, Portugal ('18), and Warsaw, Poland ('19).
Information on previous editions of the conference can be found at
http://www.ada-europe.org/confs/ae.
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*** 25th Ada-Europe Int'l. Conf. on Reliable Software Technologies ***
June 7-11, 2021 * Santander, Spain * www.ada-europe.org/conference2021